Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.
- Tatyana Tolstaya
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Provocative title, eh? I expect many people to instinctively react as angrily to this as I do to the empty clause "intellectual property is property". However, the clause "copyright is censorship" is actually true.
What is copyright? It is a law passed by and enforced by governments that places…
An interesting post from Repository for Bottled Monsters gathers together a few links on art/exhibit censorship, like this opinion, "Why Some Art Should Be Censored," from the Shreveport Times: "Another sort of case concerns the use of human corpses in art. There is a venerable tradition of showing…
Some days the intertubes are not good for my blood pressure. Today was one of those days.
It started when my email contained a plea from the National Women's Law Center sent me an email with the title "Breaking News: Abortion at Risk in Health Care Reform"
"As you are reading this, there's…
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One of the main reasons we were staying in Kimberley at all was to assist the museum staff with a particular, and rather singular, survey and excavation. The location and circumstances of this field project were quite remarkable.
This was on the location of an historic hunting…
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CATALYST
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by
Jonathan Vos Post
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Enzyme love, split me from the world
whose bond to me is solitude.
Free my blood of inhibition,
my brain's accumulated walls
of constant regulation,
over-concentrated will.
Consume in airless darkness
concerts of sour dreams.
I burn for this conversion.
Lead me to the pathway.
Transport me from environment,
from cellular compartment
to the open system, energy,
the cycle I was born to.
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0145-0255
31 dec 75
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